Frame the venture
- Define the one pool-month you sell2 hours
One sale = one residential pool served weekly for one month, chemicals included, billed at a flat monthly fee in USD. Repairs and green-pool recovery sit outside the subscription and bill separately.
Assumption (unproven for now): warm-climate US metro cluster, USD pricing, 50–70 pool target, $3k–12k starting envelope. Treat all four as placeholders until later steps measure them.
Evidence (gathered in this step): the written venture line and the two fit answers below.
Decision (taken in this step): keep this territory and owner-operator model, or stop and pick a tighter cluster or a different venture.
Stop number first: stop if 12 months of owner field work — heat, driving between pools, chemical handling, weekend callouts — is not possible, or if no tight year-round cluster exists. Weigh the encouraging case only after that: a dense 50–70 pool route on a flat monthly fee can support an owner-operator who does the work directly.
What you sell, to whom, where, and what one pool-month is
To do
Name what you sell (weekly residential pool cleaning, chemicals included), to whom (homeowners), where (metro + cluster), and one sale (one pool-month, flat USD fee; repairs outside).
Confirm you can do 12 months of heat, driving, chemical handling and weekend callouts, and that a tight year-round cluster exists; if either fails, stop here.
Keep this territory and owner-operator model or stop and pick a tighter cluster or a different venture; spend nothing yet.